This was on a list somewhere of noteworthy debut novels, and I quite enjoyed it. It’s a fine novel and what’s more, it ticks almost all of my “I obviously have to read that” categories: historical fiction set in the Middle East! Inter-generational family drama! Slyly feminist messaging! Pomegranates on the cover! This is the story of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran. Asher Malacouti is the head – an astute businessman who has multiplied his family’s wealth. His wife Rachel […]
A debut novel with pomegranates on the cover; obviously, I bought it.
The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan